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Pay Master General, please see Rev. Dr. Van Santvoord who has a question about his pay. He only asks that it commence with the date of his commission, whereas he has served ever since & long before. A. LINCOLN.
May 1, 1863.
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[1] Herbert W. Fay, Week-by-Week in Springfield, May 16, 1936. Reverend Cornelius Van Santvoord was chaplain of the Eightieth New York Infantry, October 10, 1861 to November 18, 1862, and hospital chaplain of Volunteers February 2, 1863 to July 15, 1865. See also Lincoln to William A. Hammond, infra.